ABSTRACT
PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLIES Elected provincial councils agreed to by the Qing court as part of the package of reforms implemented between 1901 and the fall of the dynasty in 1911, when many of the proposals of the Hundred Days Reform which had been rejected by the Empress Dowager Cixi became court policy. The assemblies which only had limited suffrage began to elect their delegates on February 5 1909 and convened on October 14. The delegates demanded an immediate calling of a parliament and the court prevaricated and promised that it would be convened in 1913, but this was superseded by the Revolution of 1911 in which the delegates to many of the provincial assemblies played key roles.
